Free-for-All Friday

Free for All

"Average American hasn't made new friend in 5 years . . . " [Drudge Report, 5/10]

"Behold, America:  The F-bomb has officially entered the realm of the hopelessly banal. Who knows? Perhaps if we're lucky Americans will get bored with using it--and that might just save us all." ["The Banality of the F-Bomb," Health Wilhelm, NRO 5/9]

Political Potpourri

"The Democratic party's current war on Attorney General William Barr is one of the most misguided, misplaced bursts of outrage that I've seen during the first term of the Trump administration. Barr protected the Mueller investigation, he went above & beyond legal requirements to release Mueller's report to the public, & he has offered to congressional leaders far more details about the investigation than are publicly available. Yet now he's subject to congressional contempt proceedings? This is nonsense." ["Against the Persecution of Bill Barr," David French, NRO 5/9]

Dept. of Shameless Joke-Stealing *

* Courtesy of Reader's Digest, Apr 2019]

"A doctor walks into the examining room & puts his hand on his patient's shoulder. 'I'm afraid that I have some bad news. You're dying, & you don't have much time left.' 'Oh no!' says the patient. 'How long do I have to live?' 'Ten,' says the doctor. 'Ten?' cries the panicked patient. 'Ten what? Days? Weeks? Months?' The doctor calmly replies, 'Nine ...'"

"A man is driving home from work when his wife calls him on his cell phone. 'Phil!' she shouts in a panic, 'Please be careful! I just heard that some lunatic is driving the wrong way on Rout 80.' 'You won't believe it, Doris, he replies. 'It's not just one car; it's hundreds of them!'"